Overview

• Law is a made-up human concept. Laws are enforceable rules that, ideally, facilitate peaceful coexistence, although this logic is not evident in most existing laws today. While moral rules suggest how to act, legal rules identify what conduct is prohibited and subject to formal consequences for noncompliance, regardless of whether we agree with them.
• As a human construct, many believe there is no objectively correct ‘law’; they are simply the rules we choose to live by. We must use reason to determine a framework of laws that align with justice. Others argue that natural law supports the right not to be aggressed against. The 3LP takes no position on why aggression is wrong, only that it is wrong and can be legally prohibited.
• The golden rule, to treat others as we wish to be treated, is a framework on which all reasonable people agree. The most serious aspect of the golden rule is not to aggress against others - 3L calls this the Legal Principle. It is this ‘least common denominator’, the rule that all those seeking peaceful and free co-inhabitation agree upon. It is ‘essential’; necessary, universal, and minimal.
• All the countless other laws enforced around the world today that outlaw victimless activities are merely moral preferences imposed on others. One key insight the 3L Philosophy offers is that freedom and peace require us to remove our moral preferences from the law.
• The 3L Movement seeks the best legal rules to facilitate everyone’s freedom, peace, and prosperity by harmonizing all laws with the Legal Principle.